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J. B. CHANDLEE, PRINTER, 306 & 308 CHESTNUT STREET, [QIRARD BUILDING.] 

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ENTERED ACCORDING TO THE ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENN- 
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Washington's Triumplial Entry into l^ew York. 



This beautiful Print, now ofiFered to the public, is the best work of its kind ever 
produced in this country, and is designed to illustrate the historical event of the 
triumphal entry of General George Washington into New York on the 25th of 
November, 1783, the same day on which the British Army evacuated that city. 

The drawing was executed and printed in Oil Colors, at the Establishment of 
P. S. Dotal & Son, Philadelphia, and is the largest specimen of Chromolithograph 
ever executed. The view is represented at the point of junction of Third Avenue 
and the Bowery. The annexed description will explain all of the important 
characters in the picture. 



George Washington was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, about half a 
mile from the junction of Pope's Creek with the Potomac, on the 22d of February, 
1732, he was descended from an old family of the English aristocracy. The name 
of Washington as a family was known first about the middle of the 13th century. 
There was a manor of this name in the county of Durham, England, from the pos- 
session of which descended the branches of the .Washington family, both in England 
and America. Of Washington little may be said here, it is presumed that a name 
so completely identified with the glory of our nation is familiar to every child, and 
the part which he played in the history of this country familiar as household words. 
He died 1799. 

George Clinton, born in Ulster county, New York, in 1739. He studied law, 
and in 1768 was elected to a seat in the Colonial Legislature. In 1775 was a mem- 
ber of the Continental Congress. In 1776 was appointed a Brigadier in the Army. 
In April, 1777, was elected Governor, and Lieutenant-Governor under the New 
Republican Constitution of the State He was President of the Convention assem- 
bled at Poughkeepsie to consider the Federal Constitution in 1788, was again chosen 
Governor of the State in 1801, and three years after was elected Vice President of 
the United States, and died in Washington City iu 1812. 

Martha Washington — maiden name Martha Dandridge — born in New Kent 
county, Virginia, May, 1732. In 1749 married Colonel Daniel Parke Custis, also 
of New Kent County, to whom she bore four children ; at twenty-five she lost her 
husband by death, and about 1758 or '59 having formed the acquaintance of Colonel 
Washington became his wife, after which event Mount Vernon became tlieir home 
for the remainder of their lives, at which place she fell a victim to bilious fever, 
having survived a little more than two years her illustrious husband. 

J. Knox, born in Boston in 1750. At the time the Revolutionary War broke out, 
he was engaged as a bookseller in that town. His gallant bearing as a volunteer. 



and services to Congress subsequently procured for him a Brigadier, giving him 
command of the artillery department of the army. He was always near to Wash- 
ington, and was with him in all his battles. After the capture of Cornwallis, was 
commissioned a Major-General. In 1785 succeeded Lincoln in the office of Secre- 
tary of War. He died at Thomaston, Maine, in 1806. 

Israel Putnam was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on the 7th of January, 1718. 
He was appointed to the command of the iirst troops raised in Connecticut for the 
French and Indian Wars in 1775. After the peace, he returned to his farm, and 
remained thus until the affair at Lexington. At the head of Connecticut troops, he 
distinguished himself in the battle of Bunker Hill. His last military services were 
performed at West Point and vicinity, in 1779. He died at Brooklyn, Windham 
county, Connecticut, on the 29th of May, 1790, aged 72 years. 

Kosciusko, born in Lithuania, 1756, of an ancient and noble family; educated 
at the Military School of Warsaw. He came to America, recommended to General 
Washington by Benjamin Franklin, and who appointed him an aide, also an engineer, 
with the rank of Colonel, in October, 1776. He fortified the camp of General Gates 
in his campaign against Burgoyne, and afterwards was sent to West Point, to erect 
the works there. At the close of the war he returned to his native country, and 
became at once the spirit of that country's I'evolutionary struggles. Being made 
a prisoner, and carried to St. Petersburgh, he was after some time liberated by 
Paul, 1797 ; he visited again the United States, and received a grant from Congress 
for his services He died in Switzerland, October IGth, 1817. 

B. Lincoln was born on the 3d of February, 173.3, His occupation that of a 
farmer, which he continued in his native town, Hingham, Massachusetts. Until at 
the age of forty years, he engaged in civil and military duties. In 1774, he was 
appointed a Major-General of the Militia. In 1777, he joined Washington at Mor- 
ristown with a reinforcement. On the 19th of that month, Congress appointed him 
Major-General in the Continental Army ; wounded at Saratoga severely: appointed 
to the chief command in the Southern Department, and arrived at Charlestown in 
December, 1778. The following May was in common with the largest portion of the 
Southern Army made prisoner at Charleston by Sir Henry Clinton. The succeed- 
ing November he was exchanged, and the ensuing spring joined Washington on the 
Hudson. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis, and was deputed to receive 
that Commander's sword. After this event he was elected Secretary of War, which 
he held for three years, and then returned to his farm In 1786-7, he commanded 
the militia in the suppression of >hay's insurrection. In 1787, he was elected Lieu- 
tenant Governor of Massachusetts ; was appointed Collector of the Boston Port 1789, 
which he held for twenty years. He died at Hingham on the 9th of May, 1810, aged 
77 years. He was temperate and religious, never having been known to utter a 
profane expression. 

Nathaniel Geebne was born of Quaker parents in Rhode Island in 1740 He 
was an anchor smith, and was pursuing his trade when the Revolution broke out. 
He hastened to Boston after the skirmish at Lexington, and from that time until the 
close of the war he was one of the most useful officers in the army. He died near 
Savannah, in June, 1786, and was buried in a vault in that city. His sepulchre 
cannot now be identified. No living person knows in what vault his remains were 
deposited, and there is no record to cast light upon the question. 

Gilbert Motier De La Fayette, was born 6th September, 1757, in France; and 
in 1774, mai'ried the daughter of the Duke de Noailles, a lady enjoying an immense 
fortune. In 1777, he magnanimously joined the Revolutionary Army, and by his 
arms, fortune, and influence at Court, greatly aided in securing our independence. 
In October, 1778, he obtained a leave of absence to visit France, returning again to 
America in the spring of 1780, having procured troops, arms and ammunition from 
his native country. After the capture of Cornwallis, he returned to France to raise 
another supply of men and means, when the news of peace reached him. He 
returned to America in 1784, where he was most cordially received. Again he 
revisited his native country, and played a distinguished part in all the great events 
attending the revolution and its excitements, from 1789 to 1793. In consequence of 
his moderation, he was obliged to flee France, and. being caught, was for three 
years confined in a dungeon at Olmutz, Germany. The first downfall of Bonaparte 



brought him again into public life, and in 1815, he was a member of the Chamber 
of Deputies. In 1824, he visited the United States by invitation, as the guest of the 
nation, in the United States vessel of war Brandj^wine, and was received everywhere 
with the most extravagant manifestations of joy. In the Republican Revolution of 
France, 1830, he refused the crown of Constitutional Monarch, and designated 
Louis Philippe as its recipient. La Fayette died in 1834, aged 77 years. 

Frederick William Augustus, Baron de Steuben, was a German. Holding 
important positions in the Prussian Army, being Aide-de-camp to Frederick the 
Great, and also Lieutenant-General in the service of Prince Charles of Baden, sub- 
sequently appointed Knight of the Order of Fidelity : tendered many offers by the 
King of Sardinia, and the Emperor of Austria, yet he left all and came to America 
to tight as a volunteer. He joined the American Army at Valley Forge, was in the 
action on the field of Monmouth ; he commanded in the trenches at Yorktown, the 
last great battle of the Revolution. At the close of the war, the State of New 
Jersey gave him a farm, the Legislature of New York presented him with 16,000 
acres of wild land in Oneida County, and the General Government granted him a 
pension of $2,500. He built himself a hoTise at Steubenville, New York, where he 
resided in summer, and during the winter lived in the city. He died 28th of 
November, 1798, aged 64 years. Agreeable to his request he was wrapped in his 
cloak, placed in a coffin, and buried in a lonely spot in the woods near his hut. 
Subsequently a road being laid out over his grave, his remains were removed and 
buried in the town of Steuben, seven miles north-west of Trenton Falls. 

Horatio Gates was a native of England, and was educated for military life. 
He was the first Adjutant General of the Continental Army, and was made Major- 
General in 1776. He retired to his estate in Virginia at the close of the war, and 
finally took up his abode in New York, where he died in 1806, at the age of 78 years. 

Rev. David Jones was born in AVhite Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle County, 
Delaware, on 12th of May, 1736. His ancestors were from Wales, and settled on 
the Welsh Tract. His ministerial education was obtained from the Rev. Isaac 
Eaton of Hopewell, New Jersey. For many years he was pastor of the Upper Bap- 
tist Freehold Church in that State, from which he went on a religious mission to 
the Shawnee and Delaware Indians. He again returned to his charge at Freehold, 
and by his zealous espousal of the Colonial cause, became so obnoxious to the 
Tories, that to save his life he removed to Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1775, 
and took chai-ge of the Great Valley Baptist Church. On the occasion of the con- 
tinental fast, he preached a sermon entitled, "Defensive War in a Just Cause Sin- 
less," which exerted a very salutary influence. In 1770 he was appointed Chaplain 
to a Pennsylvania Regiment under Colonel St. Clair, which was ordered to the 
Northern Department. He served through two campaigns under General Gates, 
was Chaplain to a Brigade under Wayne in 1777, with whom he was also at the 
battle of Monmouth, and all his subsequent campaigns until the surrender of 
Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. He was at the massacre at Paoli, and narrowly 
escaped death. A few days before, he had been at the battle of Brandywine and 
also at Germantown. His activity had become so notorious that General Howe 
offered a reward for him, and a detachment was sent to the Great Valley to secure 
him In 1794 he accompanied Wayne on the North-western e.xpedition against the 
Indians. When the war of 1812 broke out, he again entered the army, being 76 
years of age, and served under Generals Brown and Wilkinson, until the close of 
the contest. His last public act was to address the people assembled to dedicate 
the Paoli monument. He died on the 5th of February, 1820, aged 84 years, and 
was buried in the Great Valley Churchyard in sight of Valley Forge. 

Stephen Hopkins was born at Scituate, Rhode Island, on the 7th of March, 1707. 
He was a self-taught man, became member and speaker of the Rhode Island Assem- 
bly, and in 1754 was a member of a Convention of Delegates from the several 
Cidonies held at Albany. He was a member of the first Continental Congress in 
1774, and also was a member in 1776. He left that body in 1778, and was after- 
wards a member of the Legislature of his native State. He died on the 19th of 
July, 1785, in the 78th year of his age. 

Alexanher Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis, British West Indies, on 
the 11th January, 1757. He was of Scottish descent by his father, French by his 



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mother. He was fond of study and writing, which secured for him the co-operation 
of his friends in sending him to New York to be educated. He was placed under 
the tutorship of Francis Barber of New Jersey, who became himself a distinguished 
officer of the Revolution, he entered King's College, 1773, and at seventeen years of 
age addressei public meetings. His political writings in 1774-5, gave him con- 
siderable reputation. When the Revolution broke out, he entered the field as an 
Artillery Captain. He fought at White Plains : was with his company at Trenton 
and Princeton. In 1777, Washington appointed him his Aide-de-Camp, with the 
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was Washington's chief Secretary and confidential 
Aide, until 1781, when with the same rank he obtained the command of a light 
corps, and with these he fought bravely at Yorktown under La Fayette. 1782, left 
the army, and was admitted to practise at the bar of the Supreme Court of New 
York, and became a member of Congress. His pen prepared the public mind for 
the Federal (constitution. His financial knowledge induced Washington to appoint 
him his first Secretary of the Treasury. In 1804 he became involved in a quarrel 
with Aaron Burr, which resulted in his being challenged to mortal combat. They 
fought on the 12th July on the Hudson, and Hamilton fell mortally wounded, sur- 
viving only long enough to meet his wife and children. 

Thomas iMiri'LiN was born in Philadelphia, in 1744. His ancestors were Quakers. 
He entered public life in 1772, was a representative of Philadelphia in the Colonial 
Assembly, and a member of the first Continental Congress. He entered the military 
service, was with Washington at Cambridge, in 1776 was commissioned a Brigadier 
in the Army, in 177ii was made Major General, in 1783 was a representative to 
Congress, and in the autumn of that year was appointed its President. In 1785 
was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and in 1787 was in the Convention 
which framed the Federal Constitution. Under the provision of that instrument he 
was elected the first Governor of Pennsylvania, which office he filled for nine years. 
He retired from office in 1799, and on the 20th of the same month expired at 
Lancaster, aged 56 years. 

John Marshall — The eminent Chief Justice of the United States, was born in 
Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1755, and was the eldest of fifteen children by the 
same mother. He entered the military service in the Virginia militia against Dun- 
more, in 1775, and was in the battle at the Great Bridge. He remained in service 
as an excellent officer, until early in 1780, when he studied law and became very 
eminent in his profession. He was again in the field in 1781. In 1782 he was a 
member of the Virginia Legislature. He was chosen Secretary of War in 18(J0, 
and the next year was elevated to the Chief Justiceship of the United States. His 
Life of Washington was published in 1805. Judge Marshall died at Philadelphia 
in 1835, in the eightieth year of his age. 

Indians — Part of the six nations, and Great Chief Thayondanegea. 

Continental Guard. 

The old man beside his daughter and grand-daughter, with his hat containing the 
newspaper and glasses, is introduced to convey the idea of a Free Press: 

Old soldier wounded at an early period in the struggle, comes out on the occasion 
to welcome his old general. 

Pine Tker Flag — The field of this flag is white bunting, and a green pine tree 
on the middle 

Banner < f Washington's Life Guard. 

Ladies — Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Bingham, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs Jay, Mrs. Polly 
Caton, Mrs. Abigail Adams, formed the Republican Court, from their prominent 
position in society. 

The New England Flag — This flag was a blue ground with the red cross of St. 
George. The origin of the red cross comes from St. George, who was the Patron 
Saint of the English Realm. In the 14th and subsequent centuries, Nicholas 
observes, every English soldier wore this badge over his armor. 

The houses in the back ground are good sptcimens of architecture of the earlj' 
German settlers. 



^' ^ZnlTi??u ^r^' Washington, Esq., General and Com- 
mander of the Armies of the United States of America. 

The Address of the CUlzens of Nero Tork v^ho have returned from exile, in 
behalf of themselves and their suffering brethren: 

New York, Nov. 25, 1783 

tions th7htn! r'^r."'!^" 'I' ^™ '' 'y^---y - yielding up its fondest usurpa- 
tions, the hope the salutation of long suffering exiles, but now happy freemen will 

and tnumph, while the ensigns of slavery still linger in our sight, we look up to 
fhTs'ZtT' ^f — ^^-"-d-ndjoy. Permit us I ^.eloon.. yl' 
this city, long torn from us by the hard hand of oppression, but now by your 
Jisdom and energy under the guidance of Providence, once more the s at of pe ce 
and freedom. We forbear to speak our gratitude or your praise. We should bu 
echo the voice of applauding millions. But the citizens of New York are emilent"v 
mdeMed to your virtues ; and we, who have now the honor to address JouXe^ 
ons P " > 'rr^^^'^-^ °f y°- offerings, and witnessed'your exer- 
cerity of freemen, and to assure you that we shall preserve, with our latest brel 
our gratitude to your services, and veneration for your character; and accept o^ 
our .ncere and earnest wishes that you may long enjoy that calm do'mesl Stf 
wh ch you have so generously sacrificed that the cries of injured liberty may nevt 
more interrupt your repose-and that your happiness may be equal to your virtues' 
Signed at the request of the meeting. 

THOMAS RANDALL, EPHRAIM BRASHIER 

DANIEL PH(ENIX, THOMAS TUCKER 

PAUL BROOME, HENRY KEPP ' 

WM. GILBERT GENIN, pat. DENNISON 

FRANCIS VAN DYCK, WM. GIBER, Jk ' 

GEO. JANEWAY, JEREMIAH WOOL, 

ABRAHAM P. LOTT. 



His Excellence's answer to the Citizens of New York, who have returned 
from exile. 
Gentlemen_I thank you sincerely for your affectionate address, and entreat you 
to be persuaded that nothing could be more agreeable to me than your polite con- 
gratulations. Permit me in return to felicitate you on the happy re-possession of 

Great as your joy must be on this pleasing occasion, it will scarcely exceed that 
which I feel at seeing you, gentlemen, who, from the noblest motives have suffered 
a voluntary exile of many years, return again in peace and triumph, to enjoy the 
fruits of your virtuous conduct. J j- '° 



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The fortitude and perseverance which you and your suffering brethren have 
exhibited in the course of the war, have not only endeared you to your countrymen, 
but will be remembered with admii-ation and applause to the latest posterity. 

May the tranquility of your city be perpetual — may the ruins soon be repaired, 
commerce flourish, science be fostered, and all the civil and social virtues be 
cherished in the same illustrious manner which formerly reflected so much credit 
on the inhabitants of New Yoi'k. In fine may every species of felicity attend you, 
gentlemen, and your worthy fellow citizens, 

GEOKGE WASHINGTON. 



On the evening of the evacuation the Governor gave a public dinner, at which 
the Commander-in-Chief and other general ofiicers were present. The arrange- 
ments for the whole business were so well made and executed, that the most admir- 
able tranquility succeeded through the day and night. On Monday the Governor 
gave an elegant entertainment to the French Embassador, the Chevalier de la 
Suzerne. Gen. Washington and the principal ofiicers of New York State and of 
the army, and upward of a hundred gentlemen, were present. Magnificent fire- 
works, infinitely exceeding everything of the kind ever before seen in the United 
States, were exhibited at the Bowling Green in Broadway, on the evening of Tues- 
day, in honor of the definitive treaty of peace. They commenced by a dove de- 
scending with the olive branch, and setting fire to a marine battery. 



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No. 1. Gen. Washington. 

2. Mrs. Washington. 

3. Gov Clinton. 

4. Gen. Lafayette. 
6, Gen. Steuben. 

6. Gen. Kosciusko. 

7. Gen. Knox. 



No. 8. Gen. Putnam. 

9. Alex. Hamilton. 

10. Gen. Green. 

11. Gen. Gates. 

12. Gen. Lincoln. 

13. Thos. Mifflin. 

14. John Marshall. 



No. 15. Stephei 

16. Rev. D 

17. Mrs. P. 

18. Mrs. A 

19. Mrs. C, 

20. Mrs. B 

21. Mrs. H 



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No. 22. Mrs. Jay. 

23. Miss J. Marshall. 

24. Miss Bingham. 

26. Indians of Six Nations. 

26. Great Chief Thayondanegea. 

27. Contiaental Guards. 



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29. Wounded Soldier. 

30. St. George Cross Flae. 

31. New England Pine Tree 

Flag. 

32. Washington Life Banner 



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